An attempt, fortunately a failure, was made on Saturday last
to assassinate the Emperor of Germany. His Majesty was returning from a drive with his daughter, the Grand Duchess of Baden, when as the carriage passed through the Unter den Linden two shots were fired directly at him, a fact proved by the testi- mony of the Grand Duchess. They were fired from a revolver by one Hodel Lehman, who immediately after fired three more, presumably at the police, but wounded no one, and was arrested. He turns out to have been a workman of bad character, who describes himself as a "Christian Socialist and Anarchist," who was employed by the Socialists as a tract-distributor, but who had been expelled the brotherhood, and who desired either to take revenge by exposing them to persecution, or to make himself con- spicuous by some outrageous act of violence. The latter is the more probable, as he told a man who took his photograph, to take many, as his death would shortly send an electric shock through the land. The Emperor remained quite unmoved during the incident, which has called out a passionate display of loyalty in Berlin and the Empire ; but he has suggested further measures of repression, which will, it is reported, take the form of another law against the Press. The notion seems to be in Berlin, as in Calcutta, that if a man cannot express his discontent with his pen, he is sure not to express it with his pistol,—the exact converse of the truth.
